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What is status?
Status is when the President calls you for your opinion.
Uh, no...
Status is when the President calls you in to discuss a
problem with him.
Uh, that still ain't right...
STATUS is when you're in the Oval Office talking to the President,
and the phone rings. The President picks it up, listens for a
minute, and hands it to you, saying, "It's for you."

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What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer?
It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the
establishment of a Hilton on its peak.

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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
-- Bertold Brecht

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What is the sound of one hand clapping?

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What is this line of duty, and suffering? You are not supposed to suffer
if you are an assassin. The other person is supposed to suffer.
-- Chiun, glory of the name of Sinanju, teacher of the youth
from outside Sinanju named Remo.

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What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed
of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that
is the first law of nature.
-- Voltaire

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What is truth? We must adopt a pragmatic definition: it is what is believed
to be the truth. A lie that is put across therefore becomes the truth and
may, therefore, be justified. The difficulty is to keep up lying... it is
simpler to tell the truth and if a sufficient emergency arises, to tell one,
big thumping lie that will then be believed.
-- Ministry of Information, memo on the maintenance of
British civilian morale, 1939

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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out,
which is the exact opposite.
-- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays", 1928

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What is wanted is not the will-to-believe,
but the wish to find out, which is exact opposite.
-- Bertrand Russell